1782 Reading Quotes for You to Enjoy

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book. Julian Barnes

Life Book Reading Perfect Remains Self-Discovery Printed Discovery Task Separate Serious Symbiotic Symbol Imaginative

I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else. Julian Fellowes

Time Long Long Time Important Reading Breakfast Other Else Otherwise Guest Everything Everything Else Bear Take Spoil Invite Over Like Talk Talker Another Very Newspaper Each

I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews. Julian Lennon

Music Time Me Negative Somebody Long Reading Every Every Time Say Mad Out Bad Stay About Something Bad Review Could He Wrote Read Got How Review Reviews Very Forget Get Just Burned Exploding Then Grumpy

I love reading other people's papers on the Tube. Julian Treasure

Love People Reading Other Papers Tube

I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon! Juliana Rotich

Me Woman Remember Moon Reading Astronaut Immensely About To The Moon Fantastic

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies! Julianne Moore

You Trust Made Half Reading Wikipedia Lies Up Just Which

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up. Julie Foudy

It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it. June Lockhart

Day You Events Reading White White House Research Bone Press Out About Given Had House Identify Said Were Up Current Any Current Events Eight Where Quote Quotes Newspapers Really Show Who File

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe. Junot Diaz

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You're able to really personalize it. Jurnee Smollett-Bell

History You Wealth First Reading Research Books Able About Because First-Person Narratives Hearing Account History Books Than Person Different Stories Really Whole Different Thing Thing Slave

I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones that I love and work as hard as possible. Justin Bartha

I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was 22. I think 'Pigeon Feathers' was the first collection of stories I read. Only much later did I discover his non-fiction reviewing and art criticism. Justin Cartwright

Art Time Feathers Remember Criticism First Reading Think Later Collection Find Only Had He Pigeon Read Non-Fiction Discover His Reviewing Up Did Short Being Grew Stories Short Stories Much Published By The Time

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading Saul Bellow is a revelation, but he can't write women. There are exceptions, like Marilynne Robinson's 'Gilead,' but generally, I think it's true. Justin Cartwright

Women Writing Better Men Reading Think About Write Exceptions Generally He True Like Robinson Revelation Male Same Novelist Saul

'A Just Defiance' has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected. Justin Cartwright

Success Defiance Reading South Africa Significance Has-Been More Thriller Ruthless Brutal Had Like Reveal Well-Written Been Self-Serving South Huge Times Than Suspected Just Africa While Apartheid Far Even

'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business. Justin Cartwright

You Business Book Brilliant Reading Chaotic Post-War Shallow Winston Until Powers Advertising Occasionally Self-Serving Covers Ultimately Impression Get Story Which Persuasion Present British

When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading carefully-worded essays, when a 5 minute in-person chat would resolve the whole thing. Justin Rosenstein

Time People Amazing Reading Resolve Email Complex Topics Would Thread Composing Minute Chat Never-Ending How How Much How Much Time Time People Essays Create Much Whole Waste Thing

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value. K. Flay

Family Me Beatles Culture Guitar Value Reading Enough Some Beatles Songs Songs He Part Primarily Does Still Accomplished Taught Literacy Loved Whole Dad Play Played

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me. Kamala Harris

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. Karen Armstrong

One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name. Karen DeCrow

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Karin Slaughter

Happiness Life Liberty Reading Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Equal Access Fundamental

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. Karin Slaughter

Reading Quotes

No more reading quotes